Psalms 78:17-42

17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
^arebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18They ^btested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.
19They spoke against God, saying,
^c“Can God ^dspread a table in the wilderness?
20 ^eHe struck the rock so that water gushed out
and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”
21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;
^fa fire was kindled against Jacob;
his anger rose against Israel,
22because they ^gdid not believe in God
and did not trust his saving power.
23Yet he commanded the skies above
and ^hopened the doors of heaven,
24and he ⁱrained down on them manna to eat
and gave them ^jthe grain of heaven.
25Man ate of the bread of ^kthe angels;
he sent them food ^lin abundance.
26He ^mcaused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;
27he rained meat on them like ⁿdust,
winged birds like ^othe sand of the seas;
28he ^plet them fall in the midst of their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29And they ^qate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they ^rcraved.
30But before they had satisfied their craving,
^swhile the food was still in their mouths,
31the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed ^tthe strongest of them
and laid low ^uthe young men of Israel.
32 In spite of all this, they ^vstill sinned;
^wdespite his wonders, they did not believe.
33So he made ^xtheir days ^yvanish like ▼

▼Hebrew in

a breath, ▼

▼Or vapor

and their years in terror.
34When he killed them, they ^absought him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.
35They remembered that God was their ^acrock,
the Most High God their ^adredeemer.
36But they ^aeflattered him with their mouths;
they ^aflied to him with their tongues.
37Their ^agheart was not ^ahsteadfast toward him;
they were not faithful to his covenant.
38Yet he, being ^aicompassionate,
^ajatoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
and did not stir up all his wrath.
39He ^akremembered that they were but ^alflesh,
^ama wind that passes and comes not again.
40How often they ^anrebelled against him in the wilderness
and ^aogrieved him in ^apthe desert!
41They ^aqtested God again and again
and provoked ^arthe Holy One of Israel.
42They ^asdid not remember his power ▼

▼Hebrew hand

or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,

Psalms 95:8-11

8 ^audo not harden your hearts, as at ^avMeribah,
as on the day at ^awMassah in the wilderness,
9when your fathers put me to the ^axtest
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my ^aywork.
10 ^azFor forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
and they have not known ^bamy ways.”
11Therefore I ^bbswore in my wrath,
“They shall not enter ^bcmy rest.”

Psalms 106:13-29

13 But they soon ^bdforgot his works;
they did not wait for ^behis counsel.
14But they had ^bfa wanton craving in the wilderness,
and ^bgput God to the test in the desert;
15he ^bhgave them what they asked,
but sent ^bia wasting disease among them.
16 When men in the camp ^bjwere jealous of Moses
and Aaron, ^bkthe holy one of the Lord,
17 ^blthe earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.
18 ^bmFire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
19 They ^bnmade a calf in Horeb
and worshiped a metal image.
20They ^boexchanged the glory of God ▼

▼Hebrew  exchanged their glory

for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21They ^bqforgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
22wondrous works in ^brthe land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23Therefore ^bshe said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his ^btchosen one,
^bustood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
24 Then they ^bvdespised ^bwthe pleasant land,
having ^bxno faith in his promise.
25They ^bymurmured in their tents,
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
26Therefore he ^bzraised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
27and would make their offspring fall among the nations,
^cascattering them among the lands.
28 Then they ^cbyoked themselves to the ^ccBaal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to ^cdthe dead;
29they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.

Ezekiel 20:10-17

10 ^ceSo I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. 11 ^cfI gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, ^cgby which, if a person does them, he shall live. 12Moreover, I gave them ^chmy Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, ^cithat they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13 ^cjBut the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. ^ckThey did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; ^cland my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.

^cm“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them. 14But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, ^cnin whose sight I had brought them out. 15Moreover, ^coI swore to them in the wilderness ^cpthat I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land ^cqflowing with milk and honey, ^crthe most glorious of all lands, 16because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; ^csfor their heart went after their idols. 17Nevertheless, ^ctmy eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or ^cumake a full end of them in the wilderness.

Amos 5:25-26

25 ^cv“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 26 ^cwYou ^cxshall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,